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  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  , like Californians (California, of course, is our largest represented ... a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... many pictures of myself on this blog recently... but perhaps that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of ... Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking ... internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... yourself of society and Vitamin D and disrupting your circadian rhythms, not

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  Swagfest Battle of the Fakes Space Team and Screaming Water War How ... [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling ... few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... taste of academic rigor. We learned with assembly-line urgency; papers

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it ... experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  course 20 degree, so I am technically a 19 but kind of a 20…….” Seems like ... , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... senior events that are planned for the class of 2019. My main concerns

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of my current streak of lab luck. After my blog last week, both Chris and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... name is Gordon and I’m from sunny Santa Monica, California. Most would ... of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... ! Audrey: Yeah! So this will be Arcturus’ second year of competition. Last ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  --even data collected from the test itself shows this.   BEWARE OF FAKE ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024